@SonicWizard The response to that request was written by a CM... I don't know that means it's necessarily easy to obtain that information. I don't know that it's not... but I'm not sure why one would be different from the other. For mods, we see two pieces of info - are they banned and have they run into the ban.

@SonicWizard I don't have strong feelings either way. I've found that such alerts are relatively unuseful. People who want to post will ignore them or simply not read them, as they refused to read any of the other content that they'd been given before.

Users are shown a warning before they receive a question ban. If it didn't help then, it won't help here either. Developer time is better invested into something that improves the quality of the content that lasts, not on dealing with rejects.

Precisely this. Just about anyone hitting a ban has already been swaddled in yards of silky-soft warnings and guidance, which they've probably never read. Giving them more text to read - after first running an expensive cross-site lookup - isn't likely to make one bit of difference. — Shog9 ♦7 secs ago

anyone likely to read and comprehend a targeted warning will read and comprehend that. Some larger portion will fail to find the checkbox. The rest will ask anyway. BUT - without the expensive cross-site query.

No. You are wrong, and the evidence that you are wrong is plain and apparent. Go ask your question on StackOverflow if you think they will appreciate your question. Gerhard "Mathematics.Stackexchange Also Has Their Standards" Paseman, 2018.04.23. — Gerhard Paseman9 mins ago

"I'm tempted to recall a racist joke here. However, while it would be very effective in communicating the point, it will also run against other standards being upheld by the forum. So I will just be blunt."

This question is not related to differences between goals of math overflow and math.stackexchange but rather addresses this dedications conceptual problems.
Stackoverflow has noobs and best professionals working shoulder to shoulder. There is no any need to split junior and senior experiences th...

Right now it's getting close to a year since the last update. I'm here because the React 16/MIT license event is after the last data available there and I'm very interested to know if it had an effect visible in Trends. — jinglesthulaApr 19 at 15:07

I mean, sometimes a mental breaking down is not caused by a mental breaking down itself, but some kind of bodily pain, like some kind of internal organ failure ... not that I wish that on to anyone, just saying what I know from observation

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A true car can also kill, my toy one wouldn't even hurt a chicken

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my chickens are very curious about the car when I am testing it

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5:22 AM

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you know ... banning a woman out of anger might be the first step

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prevention is better than cure, better check it out before it's too late

Thanks for considering the above changes; those are definitely an improvement.
However, I request one thing:
Keep 404 error pages customizable per site
In other words, allow sites to choose the image that appears on the left side of the page. In my opinion, the 404 error page adds a certain le...

The fox spirit (狐狸精) or nine-tailed fox (九尾狐), having been originated from Chinese mythology, is a common motif in the mythology of East Asian countries.
In East Asian folklore, foxes are depicted as a familiar spirit possessed of magic powers. These foxes are depicted as mischievous, usually tricking other people, with the ability to disguise as a beautiful woman:
"The fox spirit is an especially prolific shapeshifter, known variously as the húli jīng (fox spirit) in China, the kitsune (fox) in Japan, and the kumiho (nine-tailed fox) in Korea. Although the specifics of the tales vary, these fox...

Miles "Tails" Prower (テイルス, Teirusu) is a fictional character in Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series, and the title character's best friend and sidekick. Tails also appears in his own spin-off series as "Two Tails" in comic books, cartoons, as well as in an OVA: Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA).
The name "Miles Prower" is a pun on "miles per hour", a reference to the famed speed of Sonic the Hedgehog. He is an eight-year-old fox with two tails, hence the nickname. A mechanical genius, he is able to use his two tails to propel himself like a helicopter. He debuted with the release of the 8-bit version of Sonic...

There is some site with wrong moderation traditions formed like security, mathoverflow, math. Moderators there do not know when to mark duplicate or what is offtopic.
To monitor moderation health status I propose to provide moderation metrics. One good metric is enterence statistics. It would ...

I am worried too.
Stackexchange/overflow is a great site with many wonderful people. Recently I encountered a few incidents of what seems to be mental breakdowns of a person with mod power.
What happened to me is minor. But the effect of mentally unsound person with power on this site can be m...

So you caused a mental break down for a moderator, he/she chat banned you, and now you accuse them? Also nice.

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I mean I would be more sympathetic is the person of concern has cancer or recent departure of loved one, but to my limited knowledge, there is nothing of such magnitude happening ... if someone is having a mental breakdown because of a tweet and all he deserve is contempt

@TelKitty Ah, that's where we differ - I don't see how a 'tough' person can still care - to me, it's equated with the opposite - being uncaring. The easy road in life isn't always the best road though :P

@ShadowWizard You are a young male wizard on a lonely island in the middle of the sea. A day a plague strikes the city. As a result, all the females slowly start to turn into stone statues. On the other and you are unaffected. In the end, you adapt to the situation and continue your studies in your tower, while the population slowly dimes. Are you tough?

@TelKitty True enough - I think I'd personally use the word 'strong' to describe what you're referring to, as opposed to 'tough', but I think this is brought on by reading a Wheel of Time, where the only thing I remember picking up from that (overly long) series was the difference between the meanings of the words 'tough' and 'strong' when applied to a person

@Shog9 I have since discontinued my flagging of serial voting and also for now discontinued my activity on the network. You can also close the two tickets I still have open if you haven't already (and want). Sorry for soaking up CM time with this fruitless endeavour.

@hey also, I am not very interested in the rules puzzles. Must be because I am pretty sure that the rules as they stand probably already open up a very simple way to smack an "Epic fail" in the face of Kira.

@ShadowWizard It's multiple things honestly. I have some really bad destructive personality traits, namely I take a lot of stuff way too seriously and I get extremely anxious about any sort of feedback. Due to past experiences, every time I don't hear anything for a while ... I assume the worst of what happened. This coupled with a conversation I had with mith a while ago in the IPS chatroom confirmed some of my worst fears in that regard

@ShadowWizard There is a video I found on youtube of a malfunctioning ski lift from the same producer suddenly going in reverse mode at full speed. Not a nice view, people got launched face-first in the snow as the seats rapidly turned direction at the base of the gondola. I don't know if it is related

Either way, it is scary.

If it is related, then the "error" was used to full damage. If it isn't related to this specific incident... it only proves that that company already did mayor errors in the past.

In both cases the question is : why are they still allowed to operate in the field?

@user5389107 It's really unfortunate losing a user like you that has a strong sense of justice. Don't look too down on yourself, your "bad destructive personality traits" might not even be that "bad", nor "desctructive". People arguing, that's normal... In the end, I can only wish you the best. Take a breather, and later come back to the community you actually loved!

@TimPost I received the hat contest swag yesterday, liking it very much :) the shipping note mentions both a SO t-shirt and a SE t-shirt, but there was no SO t-shirt in the box. Not that I mind, but thought I should let someone know.

I don't remember if I still have my packing slip, though. As far as I'm aware (I've talked to about 5-6 people who got swag) there's only one shirt. Shirt, nalgene, notepad, retractable sharpie, pen, three stickers from your top sites that have stickers, patch.

Moose Contest about Hats or Something (December 2017)
Status: Completed
Contact: animuson
Just posting this here as a reference point for everyone. The form was closed on February 12ᵗʰ to allow a few others who didn't receive the initial email. We're still in the process of formatting the sprea...

@user5389107 I just wanted to step in and expand upon my answer here: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/365764/19679 to say that your efforts were far from fruitless and have had a very positive impact on the site. We uncovered a large number of sock puppets and voting rings with your help, which allowed us to normalize the voting on a large number of posts. That overall helps the integrity and trustworthiness of the voting system.

@user5389107 I understand what it's like to cope with anxiety, and how you can get 99 pieces of positive feedback yet fixate on the 1 negative response. I do that all the time, dwelling on minor critiques of my popular projects. If walking away from the site is the best choice for you right now, I get that. I just want you to know that you had a strong net positive impact on the site, and will be welcomed back if and when you want to return.

> You know what thing we're planning to work on after the Stack Overflow for Teams launch? Nothing. Not a damn thing. We have some nice-to-haves lists stowed away, but the prevailing assumption is the month after is unpredictable and will need people to improve and fix things. -- Nick Craver at 5:21 AM - 24 Apr 2018

@Stijn The only thing I can think of is it must have been a mistake. Usually, if the warehouse just runs out of stuff, they'll adjust the packing list accordingly so .. it just somehow didn't make it in the box. Use the contact link to let 'em know and they'll send off another shirt (it really only takes a minute to do it, you won't be imposing)

> In the first month we won't change anything because we have better things to do than tweaking a temporary design, in the rest of eternity we won't change anything because people are already used to the design.

@bro And don't forget ArtOfCode's position: "I would use commas, but that would annoy a particular set of people. I would use dots, but that would annoy the other set of people. So, I'll use spaces. Now you're both annoyed."

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Thin spaces, I hope... not the regular ones.

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> Numbers consisting of long sequences of digits can be made more readable by separating them into groups, preferably groups of three, separated by a small space. For this reason, ISO 31-0 specifies that such groups of digits should never be separated by a comma or point, as these are reserved for use as the decimal sign. For example, one million (1000000) may be written as 1 000 000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_31-0#Numbers

For instance, there is a rule saying that if you revert the same edit more than three times within a 24-hour period, you will be blocked immediately. However, I've seen many blocks issued for "gaming the system" because users performed a fourth revert just after the 24 hours expired.

@rene to be honest I didn't bother to read all the edits, it's just a wall of text. But the fact remains: account with high rep and lots of good content is destroyed, without any explanation. To anyone. So this makes me realize same can happen to me, on the smaller sites. That's all.

Usually when a user post such thing a CM or site mod post answer like "since you started this, we can reveal what is going on, you did [list of bad stuff], hence got punished". But in that case, nothing like that, just irritating and unhelpfull comments from a site mod. @rene

Repressed memories are memories that have been unconsciously blocked due to the memory being associated with a high level of stress or trauma. The theory postulates that even though the individual cannot recall the memory, it may still be affecting them subconsciously, and that these memories can emerge later into the consciousness. Ideas on repressed memory hiding trauma from awareness were an important part of Sigmund Freud's early work on psychoanalysis. He later took a different view.
The existence of repressed memories is an extremely controversial topic in psychology; although some studies...